High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
~Charles F. Kettering
Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
~ Anonymous
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
~ L. M. Montgomery
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
~ Anonymous
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
~Princess Diana
He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.
~ Italian proverb
We do not write as we want, but as we can.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
~This William Shakespeare’s expectation quote is one of my favorites
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
~Confucius
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.
~ Olive Schreiner
The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.
~ Marcelene Cox
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
~ George Eliot
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~John Kenneth Galbraith
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
~ Jean Vanier
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
~Henry Louis Mencken
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
~Nikos Kazantzakis
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
~ Lin Yutang
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
~Oscar Wilde
No one is expected to achieve the impossible.
~ French proverb
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
~Horace
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
~ Graham Greene
A desert is a place without expectation.
~Nadine Gordimer
Don’t believe in miracles – depend on them.
~Laurence J. Peter
High expectations are the key to everything.
~Sam Walton